Mike Lee

If I'm right, then wouldn't it make perfect sense to move forward with this legislation?

But if someone comes along and says, 'I will do this, and I will pay $400,000 a year throughout the life of the project,' then, that would be $400,000 a year more than the Federal Government's getting right now.

If generating capacity of 50 megawatts couldn't support a payment of $5.3 million a year for the next 50 years, wouldn't it make more sense to allow this to move forward?

I look forward to working on these issues.

If by going in and starting this, someone would have to agree at the outset to pay $5.3 million a year every year for the next 50 years, it seems pretty unlikely that that's going to happen.

Thank you both for your testimony.

I've cosponsored both of these pieces of legalization with my friend and fellow Utahan, Senator Hatch.

Thank you, Senator Shaheen. Thanks for chairing this hearing and for letting me serve on this subcommittee with you.

I'm uncomfortable with Congress declaring new wilderness as long as that shroud of uncertainty remains.

I think it's appropriate for us to get input from the host state's legislature before we declare new wilderness.

Pakistan's influence on the fight against terrorism, its role in the region generally, its nuclear weapons capabilities, and various other factors make it an important, and a volatile, factor in U.S. national security.

Competition must be understood as maximization of consumer welfare.

I favor market approaches rather than Government funding and intervention to develop a nationwide mobile broadband network.

Potentially leading to less competition. Is that your position?

The combination of AT&T and T-Mobile would create the largest wireless carrier in the Nation.

Our analysis of the proposed merger between AT&T and T-Mobile should be guided by what will be best for consumers.

I share some of the concerns expressed by my colleague the Chairman, Senator Kohl.

Ultimately, we believe that in order for a country to become prosperous, it requires good governance.

I understand that bilateral aid to sub-Saharan Africa has had quite a significant bump over the last decade.

I believe that there is a real competition. I believe that we play a critical role, a positive role in terms of development, in terms of promoting ideals of respect for human rights

if the United States cuts back on some of our development efforts and our aid in Africa, we will leave a vacuum of the particularly dangerous sort that other nations or other entities might fill

In response to an argument that the unfunded mandate requiring the States to expand the eligibility standards for Medicaid... you argued, as I understand it, that this was a policy argument, not a constitutional argument.

Isn't there a real slippery slope there in the sense that if we can do that...

It seems odd to me that an Attorney General could be thought not to have standing to challenge a law that requires substantial investment on the part of the State.

Do you agree with that general principle?